linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve 'bare use of' signed/unsigned types warning

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Message-Id: <6a0e24c3e9102337528ecfcbbe91a0eb5b4820ed.1469529497.git.joe@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jul 2016 03:40:21 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:	Alan Douglas <alanjhd@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve 'bare use of' signed/unsigned types warning

Fix false positive warning of identifiers ending in signed with an =
assignment of WARNING: Prefer 'signed int' to bare use of 'signed'.

Reported-by: Alan Douglas <alanjhd@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 77915e0..1d5b09d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3347,7 +3347,7 @@ sub process {
 		next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);
 
 # check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int
-		while ($line =~ m{($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
+		while ($line =~ m{\b($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
 			my $type = $1;
 			my $var = $2;
 			$var = "" if (!defined $var);
-- 
2.8.0.rc4.16.g56331f8